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unusual facts about Ambulance Service



999: What's Your Emergency?

The first series was filmed in Blackpool over 6 weeks in 2011 and follows members of the Police service, the Fire service and Ambulance service as they work together to tackle crime and disorder in Blackpool.

Cornelius Vanderbilt IV

He attended Harstrom's Tutoring School and St. Paul's as a young man, then served in the Ambulance Service during the First World War where he became a driver when a general asked the enlisted men if anyone could drive a Rolls Royce.

Emergency Preparedness Operational Command Unit

The objectives of the unit mostly involve contingency planning, exercising major incident procedures, organising body recovery in the event of an attack, advising senior staff and officers in charge of major incidents, liaison with other organisations such as the Ambulance Service and Fire Service.

Sillitoe Tartan

For example, in New South Wales (NSW) the Ambulance Service uses red and white chequers on ambulances and paramedic's uniforms, while the State Emergency Service uses orange and white Sillitoe Tartan.


see also

999: What's Your Emergency?

999: What's Your Emergency? is a British factual documentary following the members of the emergency services in Blackpool, Lancashire in series 1 and the ambulance service throughout the UK in series 2.

Glenn Laffel

Deployments of Clinical Solutions' content included NHS Direct, a toll-free national service provided to UK citizens by the British National Health Service, Queensland Health (Australia), and the New South Wales Ambulance Service (Australia).

Grady EMS

With the municipal takeover, the ambulance service became a part of the hospitals security department and Tom Moreland was appointed as the first security department director who also oversaw ambulance operations.

Rapid response vehicle

Ambulance emergency response vehicle, particularly in the New South Wales Ambulance Service.